Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the Swedish container ship Elgaren was due to make a seven-hour stop in the port of Hamburg, U.S. officials informed their colleagues in West Germany that the ship was carrying Soviet-bound contraband. Once the ship had docked, however, a Hamburg judge turned down the formal request for a search warrant on grounds of insufficient evidence. As the deadline ticked closer, a three-member panel of the appeals court reviewed and finally reversed the earlier decision. Just seven minutes before the Elgaren was scheduled to lift anchor, anxious officials sped out to it in a launch and clambered...
...alarm implies acceptance, not only of a high frequency of harassment, but also of ineffective procedures. They survey data show that when people were harassed, they did not use the procedures. Only 6 percent of the women who were subject to the most serious incidents of harassment filed a formal complaint...
More problematic cases of harassment often require extra assistance for the victim or some form of intervention to reach a satisfactory resolution. In such cases a formal inquiry may not be necessary, or the victim may decide, despite the seriousness of the case, not to pursue a formal complaint. For this "second tier" of cases we have recommended the creation of a central office which would provide an ambudsperson to handle all intervention into cases, and also be responsible for campus-wide training and education on the issue. While the primary goal of this office would be to mediate solutions...
Finally, cases of harassment involving serious abuses of power should, at the victim's request, be investigated and acted upon through a formal process. We recommend that such cases be investigated and decided by an official, impartial board rather than a single administrator. This process should respect traditional nations of fairness and due process for BOTH parties, including the reciprocal right to respond to evidence, the right to and advocate and the right to appeal...
...didn't want a series of formal declamations about how the Presidency has been interpreted by historians," said Jonathan Moore, Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and an organizer of the event. The Institute instead wanted to set up a program that would show the human element of Kennedy's career...